20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Graphene oxide (GO) is a 2D insulative material whose conductivity can be partially restored in localized regions via photothermal reduction with a focused laser beam (FLB). While silver mig…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Electronic gadgets used in ICT today, are dedicated to doing a lot of business and providing healthcare services amongst other services in rural and urban areas worldwide. These devices use…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease affects an estimated 5.4 million people, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Seeking to increase therapeutic gains, near infrared light (NIR)…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
It goes without saying that the blind are in serious need of getting information by studying and working independently. Despite a vast array of state-of-the-art devices such as Braille books…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The novel human-computer interaction tool developed in this study replaces the features of keyboard and mouse by using a highly accurate gaze tracker based on a neural network for general us…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Although machine learning is becoming increasingly necessary in every industry, its programming is still difficult for most people, even to some experts. Scripting for neural network usually…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Cardiovascular system diseases are leading causes of mortality worldwide and in all age groups. Moreover, specialists believe that in 90% of cases, cardiovascular diseases can be cured if di…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Each year about 50,000 patients die from colon cancer – it is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Colon cancer usually develops from polyps, which are growths on t…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Abstract Produced by traumatic brain injury such as concussions, free radicals cause many problems when released in the brain including memory loss, attention problems, depression, and disor…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Second Award
Insertion of a fluorine atom into organic molecules allows to increase their bioactivity. Nowadays 40% of all medicines contain in their structure one or more fluorine atoms. Particularly in…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Detecting rare cell types would allow very early disease diagnosis (e.g., cancer, infection), identification of new cell types, and deepen our understanding of cell differentiation. We devel…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The N-Queens Problem is the problem of placing N chess queens on a NxN chessboard so that no two queens attack each other. Calculation of the number of different solutions is related to the…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
After Hurricane Maria devastated the island's power grid. Most of the people were left without electricity for a long time. It is not cost effective to invest from $500-$2,000 plus $504 mont…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Serum proteins can generally be a rich resource for the illness’ indication. They are invaluable resources to detect illnesses such as inflammation, cancer, diabetes, malnutrition, cardiovas…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: The experiment identified Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) as a novel molecular target in Serous Ovarian Carcinoma determined the potential of SSI-4, an SCD1 inhibitor, as a novel m…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Kinesins are motor proteins that move unidirectionally along microtubules as they hydrolyze ATP. Although the general features of the kinesin walking mechanism are becoming increasingly clea…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Our team took on this challenge by copying the skills of some animals such as bats and dolphin, which emit sonar calls into their surroundings and receive it again to divert away from them.…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Next-generation intracellular delivery solutions are necessary and will provide essential roles in drug therapeutic applications as well as being critical components of genome editing approa…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products(PPCPs) are aquatic contaminants that have been detected in surface water globally. However, their aquatic toxicity, especially in complex mixtures,…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today’s farmers must be innovative and cautiously smart with the way that the markets are continuing to trend. They must figure out how cost may be eliminated, what they can do to increase p…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After trying to naturally reduce nitrate levels in an aquarium, we began to wonder if there were natural ways to remove nitrate levels in streams. We collected stream water from the New Prag…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Silent Myocardial Infarctions (SMIs) produce non-specific ambiguous symptoms in patients who are at-risk (ie., diabetic, etc.) because of associated nerve damages. Currently, there's almost…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The project’s purpose was to code and train an artificial intelligence model, as well as to make an auxiliary device that monitors infants in their sleep to prevent cases of Sudden Infant De…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) is expected to become the third largest killer worldwide by 2030. Current diagnosis mechanisms are time-consuming and costly, highlighting the ne…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Exposure to organic environmental contaminants in water supplies can lead to adverse health effects. Non-thermal plasmas have been proposed for waste-water treatment as a means to degrade or…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Rapidly emergent within the scientific community are drug delivery systems, complex amalgamations of medicinals consolidated into a controllable vehicle that seeks to maximize immediacy and…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After harvesting, rice stubble left in the fields become agriculture waste which is hard to removed. However, most farmers prefer the convenient way of burning the rice stubbles which eventu…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Third Award
Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bacteremia and endocarditis with high mortality rate. Recent studies demonstrated that S. aureus quickly responds to each new antibiotic, even to…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Organic polymeric materials have attracted extensive attention for optical devices, consumer electronics, and biomedical tools due to their combination of optical, electrical, mechanical, an…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Recent efforts on capacitive sensors and supercapacitor designs have worked towards developing materials that can be seamlessly integrated into devices with irregular geometries and form fac…